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How You Can Appeal Your Home’s Tax Assessment

If you think your home’s tax assessment is too high, you can always appeal it. Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale As a homeowner, tax assessments are something you have to deal with on every year. Upon finding out that their property tax has increased, many people simply throw their assessment in the shredder and accept the increase without giving it a second thought. Don’t do that! If you read your assessment carefully, you’ll see that you have...

Sep 23, 2019

Real Estate Market Conditions in Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland

Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale For this market update, I’ve compiled the data from the Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland real estate markets because all of the numbers are so similar. Here’s what you need to know. Let’s start by looking at what the real estate market is doing today. The median sold price in the D.C. Metro is up by 2.91%. Although there is a 17% appreciation rate right now in Arlington, it’s from a much smaller sample siz...

Sep 09, 2019

Should You Invest in Real Estate Today?

Given that today’s market leans heavily toward sellers, should you invest in real estate? The answer is yes, but not without following these tips. Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale Our current market is booming with activity and inventory sits at an all-time low, which is leading many of my clients to wonder if there are still opportunities to invest in real estate despite the definite seller’s market we’re in. Admittedly, as someone who’s almo...

Jul 19, 2019

The National Market Is Shifting, but Are We Shifting Along With It?

Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale If you’ve been paying attention to the latest nationwide market statistics, you might’ve noticed that in many areas around the country, we’re shifting from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market. In our Northern Virginia/D.C./Maryland area, however, we’re still in a seller’s market. Let’s recap some year-over-year statistics from this past September. In Virginia, the average days on market was 39 days, which was...

Oct 23, 2018

Buyers’ Standards Are High—Does Your Home Stack Up?

Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale My guest Mike is a real estate broker in Virginia, Maryland, and D.C; he and I partnered up a month ago and today we’d like to talk about the importance of your property’s condition when it comes to selling your home. Three months ago when the market was busier, people couldn’t get away with failing to paint their house, fix the grout in the bathrooms, or other such details, even though they felt they could. We...

Sep 13, 2018

What the Upcoming Recession Means for Real Estate

Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale Many of my investors ask me when the next recession is going to happen. The truth is that I don’t know. All I can do is look for answers. Many smart economists predict that the recession might start in 2020. Our economy has been expanding since 2009 and we have seen almost a decade of growth. All signs point toward a recession soon. However, to my friends that invest in real estate, there’s no need to panic. Wi...

Aug 17, 2018

What You Need to Disclose in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C.

Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale Today I want to talk about property disclosure as the seller. Many people have asked me what they need to disclose about their property when selling. To answer this, I should start by saying that what you have to disclose depends on where you live. Each state actually has different rules about disclosures. Virginia, for example, is a “buyer-beware” state. If you read Virginia's one-page disclosure, it pretty mu...

Aug 03, 2018

10 Expensive Day-to-Day Mistakes You May Be Making as a Homeowner

Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale Here are the top 10 most expensive mistakes you might be making on your home: 1. Using traditional light bulbs. Did you know that if you change from traditional light bulbs to LED light bulbs, you can save as much as $150 over the life of each light bulb? 2. Ignoring a leaky faucet. If you know you have a leaky faucet and think it is no big deal, consider this: One wasted drop per second equates to 3,000 wasted...

May 29, 2018

2018 vs. 2017: A Q1 Market Comparison

Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale Today let’s review the first quarter market of 2018 and see how it compares to the first quarter of 2017. The average sold price for Virginia in the first quarter of 2018 is up 3.48%, which is great news for homeowners. Homes are selling on average at $511,066 this year versus just $498,880 last year. Sold units are down 2.85%; we are in a low-inventory market, so fewer homes have sold in the first quarter than...

Apr 27, 2018

4 Ways to Add Value to Your Home

No matter when you plan on selling, you can always add value to your home. Here are a few of our top tips. Selling a home? Get a free home value report Buying a home? Search all homes for sale Many of you have asked me about what you can do to improve the quality of your home so that you get the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time when you decide to sell. Here are four things I would do if I were to sell a house right now: 1. Fix anything obvious. If you have rotten wood or a dri...

Apr 10, 2018

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